SINGAPORE - An upgraded digital red light camera system has caught 1,175 motorists for beating red lights, barely three months after it was set up.

In March, the police starting operating a new generation of digital cameras, that do away with film, at five traffic junctions.

Installation has been completed at 30 junctions and the upgrading of all 240 red light cameras will be completed by June next year, said the police on Sunday evening.

These cameras work round the clock and the digital photos of errant motorists can be retrieved remotely, unlike the older cameras which rely on film that have to be physically replaced when they run out.